Active and passive smoking and risk of Parkinson’s disease
✍ Scribed by K. Tanaka; Y. Miyake; W. Fukushima; S. Sasaki; C. Kiyohara; Y. Tsuboi; T. Yamada; T. Oeda; T. Miki; N. Kawamura; N. Sakae; H. Fukuyama; Y. Hirota; M. Nagai; the Fukuoka Kinki Parkinson’s disease Study Group
- Book ID
- 109339095
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 96 KB
- Volume
- 122
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0001-6314
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